Picadon
1978 Japanese film
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Picadon (Japanese: ピカドン Pikadon, 'atomic bomb')[1] is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime,[2] produced and directed[3] by Renzō Kinoshita.
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Daizaburo Hayashi
Toshihiro Komori
| Picadon | |
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A screenshot from the film. | |
| ピカドン | |
| Directed by | Renzo Kinoshita |
| Screenplay by | Sayoko Kinoshita |
| Produced by | Renzo Kinoshita Daizaburo Hayashi Toshihiro Komori |
| Cinematography | Satoru Isobe |
| Music by | Reijiro Koroku Production Nova |
Production company | Studio Lotus |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Plot
The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima.
Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane. At the same time he throws his paper plane from his balcony and it falls, the atom bomb detonates, unleashing an unprecedented amount of destruction over people.
People burn to death, survivors' skin melts. This scene ends with the view a small burned figure near the genbaku dome, presumably the child who was playing with a paper plane earlier.
Last sequence of the work shows the boy throwing his plane again, the paper plane flying instead and passing over modern-day Hiroshima as a shadow.
